Investiture

Wednesday,it has been 3 days since our investiture ended.

Triangular warfare, hike and investiture all jam packed into Sat and Sun.

It was very encouraging to see that the sec 1 students are able to interacting among themselves and with our brother scouts from Zhenghua and GreenRidge Sec.

PL JH need to be specially mentioned, he came back after settling his stuffs (at 1 o'clock)and joined the rest. :)

All the walking around the schools, trying weird concoctions and using higher level thinking to solve the mysteries...I hope the our Scouts had a great time.

I am very impressed by the attitudes of some sec 1 scouts. Though they had some abrasions during the War Game at the night time, the abrasions did not stop them from having spirit and the fun.

The hike was really a killer for me. Especially when it started at 4am in the morning...But we perservere and managed through it,didn't we?

Again I hope all of us share the common vision, bringing on the scouts to the next higher height.

YK

JW'06

Last week, we had completed the JW'06.
Just now, I had given WM and WW the list for them to pin up onto the notice board.

Our top earners for JW'06 were from sec4.Both top earners earned approximately $555.

I believe emphasis had been made from my part to our sec 1 brothers - money is always an issue, at least for me as the leader/teacher in charge. We have limited resources but many things to pay, as mentioned to our sec 1:

Sec 1 orientation - A couple of hundred have been spent.
JW'06 - $2550
Sec 1 uniform - $65 X 14
June camp - ...
Triangular War - ...
Trips - ...
Other courses - ...

My advice to sec 1 is that things are not free. Someone had paid for it last year, yes last year and they were your seniors...from that aspect, we had to at least respect them and more importantly learn from them.

I also understood from the seniors that quite a number of you were not focused enough during JW'06. I mentioned before and will say these again...
1. Have you thought about things that you would want to do?
2. In a swift of 8~9 mths, you will be senior, have you had any things to
welcome your sec 1 brothers?

Be humble and learn :>

YK

Picking up dry twigs and leaves

Friday was generally my happy day as I always mentioned to scouts.
Be it to the senior or to the junior. In a nutshell, felt better as I could see you guys.

Yesterday as I came back from my lunch, I saw this group of young men picking some stuffs near the turnaround in front of Fajar. In closer inspection, there were our fine young gentle from scouts...picking up the fuel for their cooking test :>
So I went over and assisted them. It was a fun occasion, everyone there, Afiq, Albert, Joel and Shi You each had a plastic bag. :> Tommi from other the band also came back to look, assist and pick the leaves.

The idea was to sell the extra bag to those who did not have any dry leaves. Alas, most had the dry leaves and twigs.

Anyway Afiq was slightly hurt on the later part of the day(he fell into the drain while running), though the pain was excruciating, he managed not to cry. Good. At least must inform where and how you were hurt.

Many of the scouts thought cooking was easy. Did you have a hard time trying? I hope you were not taken aback by the difficuities. If there is any difficulties, always conquer it. Then move on.

:>

Things to be done:
1. Settle JW money.
2. Settle Scout T-shirt money.
3. Settle namelist.
4. Settle overseas trip.


YK